Chronic Disease Data Sources
Vermont Data Sources
- Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
- Hospital Data from BISHCA
- National Survey on Drug Use and Health
- Pediatric Nutrition Surveillance (pdf)
- PRAMS CPONDER
- PRAMS Data Briefs
- Population Estimates - 2009 data in Excel & PDF formats
- Vermont Indicators Online
- Youth Risk Behavior Survey
State Profiles from National Data Sources
- Alcohol-Attributable Deaths
- Alcohol-Attributable Years of Potential Life Lost
- Cancer Planet State Profiles
- Chronic Disease Indicators - CDC and Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists
- County Health Indicators
- Making the Grade on Women's Health
- National Survey of Children's Health: Health and Well-Being of Children
- National Survey of Children's Health: Mental and Emotional Well-Being of Children
- National Healthcare Quality State Snapshots 2007
- SMART: Selected Metropolitan / Micropolitan Area Risk Trends
- State Health Access Data Assistance Center (SHADAC)
- Vermont Hospital Report Cards (Act 53)
- Vermont KIDS COUNT
National Data Sources
- Area Resource File
- Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
- Health by Target Population
- Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP)
- Medical Expenditure Panel Survey
- Medicare Health Outcomes Survey
- National Survey of Children's Health
- National Emergency Medical Services Information System (NEMSIS)
- National Healthcare Quality Report All State Data Table for All Measures
- National Health Interview Survey Online Analysis Tool
- National Immunization Survey
- U.S. Population estimates (archived)
- Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS)
- Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System
International Data Sources
- Information on the Occurrence of Cancer Worldwide
- WHO Cancer Mortality Database (select "WHO" on the navigation bar near the top right of the page)
Clinical Indicators
- Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ)
Includes links for prevention, inpatient, patient safety and pediatric quality indicators.- See above "State Profiles from National Data Sources" for Vermont data on clinical indicators.
- American Medical Association Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement
- PDF file with codes for measures (Note: the DOQ-IT measures are a subset of these).
- Chronic condition indicator from Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) - The Chronic Condition Indicator provides an easy way for users to categorize ICD-9-CM diagnosis codes into one of two categories: chronic or not chronic.
- Co-morbidity software from HCUP
- Diabetes Indicators and Data Sources Internet Tool
- Doctor's Office Quality-Information Technology (DOQ-IT) measures
- Healthy People 2010
- See also: Healthy Vermonter tracking page
- Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set (HEDIS) measures
- Required hospital measures by year:
- Physician HEDIS measures available on the NCQA website.
- National Quality Measures Clearinghouse - searchable by disease/condition
- A Purchaser's Guide to Clinical Preventive Services: Moving Science into Coverage -
Disease-specific recommendations for clinical preventive services.
- Recommendations based on your own (or your target population's) personal health characteristics.